100+ Molly Ringwald Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

source: - "The Neverland Club" by Molly Ringwald, www.nytimes.com. August 11, 2009.

Topics: Special, Shapes, Helping, Special Someone

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The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

source: - Molly Ringwald (2012). “When It Happens to You”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

Topics: Sleep, Kids, Tired

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

Topics: Growing Up, Kids, Black, Nightclubs

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

Topics: Regret, Believe, Past, Different Life

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

Topics: Actors, Honest, Being Honest

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

Topics: Impact, Filmmaking

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

Topics: Book, Writing, Thinking

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

source: - Molly Ringwald (2010). “Getting the Pretty Back (Enhanced Edition): Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick”, p.17, Harper Collins

Topics: Self Esteem, Self, Want

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

Topics: Mistake, Teenager, Being Free

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

Topics: Father, Years, Trying, Jazz Band, Annie

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

Topics: Teenager, Insecure, Emotional, Over Confident

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.

Topics: Believe, Careers, Keys, Anything In Life

I have a very independent spirit.

Topics: Independent, Spirit

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Topics: California

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

Topics: Eye

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

Topics: Book, Turning 40, Spots

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Topics: Wish, Prepared

People feel like they grew up with me.

Topics: People, Grew, Grew Up

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

Topics: Teenager, Young

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

Topics: Change, Mean, Home

I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'

Topics: Kissing, Thinking, People, Loaded, Jack Daniels

I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.

Topics: Believe, Geek, Panties

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

Topics: Mother, Daughter, Reality

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

Topics: Money, Daddy, Your Dad, Earrings

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

Topics: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Way

I just needed to leave Hollywood.

Topics: Hollywood, Needed

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

Topics: Musical, Want, Comfort, Comfort Food

The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.

Topics: Magazines, Excited, Bigger, Seventeen

Originally I considered myself a singer.

Topics: Singers

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.

Topics: Appreciation, Dad, Passion, Comfort Food

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: People, Brutal

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

source: - "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

Topics: Running, Book, Wonderful

Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.

source: - "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

Topics: Crazy, Book, Icons, Crazy Times

It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.

source: - "'The Breakfast Club' Turns 30: Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy Dish on the John Hughes Classic". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. March 20, 2015.

Topics: Thinking, Years, People

My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't really dispense with a lot of advice when it comes to the music. He's taught me a lot over the years, but when I was taking on this project he's really hands-off about that. He just appreciates what I've done and is very supportive, and of course really proud.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Dad, Artist, Hands

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.

source: - "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

Topics: Writing, Long, Acting

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

source: - "Molly Ringwald Talks The Secret Life of the American Teenager". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 22, 2009.

Topics: Mother, Baby, Kids

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

source: - "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.